There are a good many kinds of Eriophyllum, common and very variable,
woolly plants.
[Sidenote: =Woolly Yellow Daisy=
_Eriophýllum lanàtum_
=Yellow
Spring, summer
Cal., Oreg., Wash.=]
This is a handsome kind, in favorable situations forming large
conspicuous clumps, from one to two feet high, covered with bright
golden flowers, each over an inch across. The leaves are dull green
on the upper side, but the under side and the buds and stems are
all covered with fine white down. The leaves are variable in form,
sometimes neither lobed nor toothed, and sometimes cut into narrow
toothed divisions. This has a variety of forms and grows on hillsides.
[Sidenote: =Eriophyllum=
_Eriophýllum caespitòsum var. integrifòlium_
=Yellow
Summer
Northwest, etc.=]
This forms low tufts of pale gray downy foliage, contrasting well with
the bright yellow flower-heads, each about an inch across. This grows
around Yosemite and in other mountain places, as far east as Wyoming,
and has a variety of forms.
[Sidenote: =Golden Yarrow=
_Eriophýllum confertiflòrum_
=Yellow
Summer
California=]
This has small flowers, but it forms such large clumps that the effect
of the golden-yellow clusters is handsome and very conspicuous, on dry
hills and mountains and along roadsides in summer. It is woody below,
from one to two feet high, and the leaves are more or less woolly. The
variety _discoídeum_ has no rays.
There are many kinds of Anthemis, natives of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
[Sidenote: =Mayweed, Chamomile, Dog Fennel=
_Ánthemis Cótula_
=White
Summer, autumn
U. S., etc.=]
This little weed is common in waste places and fields and along
roadsides, almost all over the world. It is a branching annual, from
one to two feet tall, with feathery light green foliage, cut into many
long, narrow divisions, almost smooth, with a disagreeable smell and
strong acrid taste. The many daisy-like flowers have heads about an
inch across, with from ten to eighteen white rays and convex yellow
centers. There is a picture of this plant in Mathews' _Field Book_.
[Illustration: Golden Yarrow--E. confertiflorum.
Woolly Yellow Daisy--E. lanatum.